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WIA: How tower and data center operators can enable and monetize rapid 5G buildouts

iconectiv’s Head of Product, Mykola Konrad, emphasizes the necessity for tower and data center operators to embrace iconectiv® TruOps™ Common Language® in facilitating effective communication with communication service providers (CSPs), enhancing asset visibility and enabling efficient network planning to fully seize the opportunities of the 5G landscape.Read the full article here.
May 2, 2024
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KSL 5 TV: NCAA Tournament basketball is coming to Salt Lake and so are the ticket scams

Chris Drake, SVP at iconectiv, joins Matt Gephardt from KSL 5 TV to discuss NCAA March Madness ticket scams. Chris discusses the various types of fraud leading up to the tournament and how to avoid them.Watch the full segment here.
Mar 20, 2024
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Forbes: Countering Fraud and Navigating Customer Experience Complexities

iconectiv’s Head of Information Solutions Business, Peter Ford, discusses the ongoing challenges confronting digital identity on a global scale, focusing specifically on the exploitation of phone numbers. Peter emphasizes the significance of verification processes like Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB), and the critical importance of preserving phone numbers' integrity for secure digital interactions. He advocates for collaborative efforts and innovative solutions to…
Mar 15, 2024
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Pipeline Magazine: The Five Rs of the Customer Experience: Protecting Digital Identity, Preventing Fraud & Robocalls

Michael O’Brien, Executive Vice President of Corporate Business Development at iconectiv, emphasizes collaborative efforts among regulators and communication service providers to combat challenges posed by a surge in fraudulent activities, using the “5 Rs of CX” framework to address issues such as trust-building, regulatory compliance, customer retention and infrastructure adaptability for a safer digital future. Read more on Pipeline.
Mar 11, 2024
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VanillaPlus: How phone numbers define us

Tune in as Jim Morrish from VanillaPlus chats with Mike O’Brien, EVP of Business Development at iconectiv, about how phone numbers stay with us and remain the center of a person's digital identity.Watch now here.
Mar 8, 2024
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VanillaPlus Issue 2 2024: iconectiv’s Mike O’Brien explains how verified identity will slam the door on fraud

Mike O’Brien, EVP of Business Development at iconectiv, is the cover story of VanillaPlus Issue 2 2024 as he discusses the pervasive threat of fraud targeting mobile devices and the importance of securing digital identity, with a focus on the role of phone numbers as a key identifier. He further explores the challenges businesses and consumers face in verifying identity and combating fraud in the digital age. The story emphasizes the significance of the phone number in this process and its…
Feb 26, 2024
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Telecom Reseller: Fraudsters target personal phone numbers as iconectiv helps enterprises and others protect their brands

Michael O’Brien, Executive Vice President, Corporate Business Development at iconectiv, talks with Doug Green at Telecom Reseller about the challenges of securing personal phone numbers, emphasizing fraudsters' opportunistic exploitation for financial gain.Learn more here. 
Feb 20, 2024

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Zain Group Drives Operational Efficiencies, Financial Compliance with Comprehensive Fixed Asset Management Solution

KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT – 19 February 2019 – Zain Group, a leading mobile telecommunications provider serving more than 47.8 million customers in the Middle East and North Africa, today announced it will incorporate the iconectiv Common Language® solution to enhance capital and operational efficiencies within the company. The solution from iconectiv, an authoritative partner of the global communications industry, will help Zain gain new business insights through the comprehensive and ongoing…
Feb 19, 2019
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Industry Leaders Discuss New Strategies to Protect Consumers against Telephone Fraud

BRIDGEWATER, NJ – February 12, 2019: Strategies and insights to combat the continuing rise of telecom fraud will be the topic of discussion for delegates convening at a specialist summit in San Francisco on February 21, 2019. Among the expert speakers, will be Chris Drake, CTO, iconectiv who will provide details on a new twist on an old fraud technique that is quickly escalating losses for service providers, call centers and enterprises. With the cost of telecom fraud continuing to…
Feb 12, 2019
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Intelligently managing fraud and asset management focus at MWC19 Barcelona

BARCELONA, SPAIN – Service providers will lose €1.9B to telecom fraud on the first day of MWC19 Barcelona. iconectiv, an authoritative partner of the global communications industry connecting more than two billion people every day, will be discussing critical strategies to mitigate fraud during the show. Stop by the iconectiv meeting room located in Hall Two – Stand 201. Press and analyst interviews are available, and may be scheduled by emailing Sharon Oddy at soddy@iconectiv.com.   …
Feb 4, 2019
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Are home location register (HLR) lookups putting your business at risk?

Market brief outlines how service providers can efficiently route calls and messages securely BRIDGEWATER, NJ – January 23, 2019: With tens of millions of telephone numbers porting to a different network every week, service providers must be able to identify what network a telephone is on to route a call or message to it in fractions of a second. Getting that detail wrong is a costly mistake, which is why a new market brief from iconectiv, an authoritative partner of the global…
Jan 23, 2019
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Best practice fraud protection strategies in the spotlight as service providers face increasing losses

Industry leading iconectiv® TruNumber Protect takes center stage at inaugural Middle East conference BRIDGEWATER, N.J. – January 17, 2019 – The increasingly damaging impact of telecom fraud and how service providers can protect themselves and their customers from its risks, will be one of the key takeaways from the upcoming Risk and Assurance (RAG) Conference in Bahrain. With annual global losses from telecoms fraud heading towards $30 billion, the most effective strategies to combat the…
Jan 17, 2019
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iconectiv’s Kathy Timko Appointed to Rutgers University’s Customer Experience Certificate Program Advisory Board

Timko joins other top business executives in mentoring tomorrow’s customer experience professionals iconectiv, an authoritative partner of the global communications industry connecting more than two billion people every day, today announced Rutgers University has appointed Kathy Timko, Head of the Local Number Portability Administration (LNPA) Services at iconectiv, to its Customer Experience Certificate Program Advisory Board. The Advisory Board supports attendees of the Rutgers Customer…
Dec 11, 2018
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Vietnam Brings Choice, Convenience of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) to Residents

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. – December 10, 2018 – Vietnam is the latest country to provide the choice and convenience of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) to its residents with the rollout of a national solution on November 16, 2018. The Vietnam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA) selected FPT Information System Corporation (FPT IS) to deploy Vietnam’s first MNP solution using iconectiv’s TruNumber Portability Clearinghouse. FPT worked closely with iconectiv—the authoritative partner of the global…
Dec 10, 2018